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Figure Norse and Germanic
Rollo
10th-century Viking and Count of Rouen
- Child of Rǫgnvaldr Eysteinsson and Hildr Hrólfsdóttir
- Married to Poppa of Bayeux, Gisela of France
- Dated c. 860 CE – c. 932 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
Family
The family of Rollo
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 15
Family 15
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Hildr Hrólfsdóttir 9th-century Norwegian poet and noblewoman
- child of (father) Rǫgnvaldr Eysteinsson 9th century Norse viking and first Jarl of Møre
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of the house House of Normandy usual designation for the family that were the Dukes of Normandy and Kings of England - parent of (child) Crespina de Normandie Peerage person ID=104769
- parent of (child) Gerletta de Normandie Peerage person ID=104770
- parent of (child) Gerloc Wife of William III of Aquitaine (912–962)
- parent of (child) Kathlin de Normandie Peerage person ID=104771
- parent of (child) Robert of Corbeil Peerage person ID=104768
- parent of (child) unknown (?) Peerage person ID=590119
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parent of (father) William Longsword Count of Normandy from 927 to 942 - sibling of Hallað Rǫgnvaldsson third Jarl of Orkney
- sibling of Torf-Einarr Viking warlord, Earl of Orkney
- sibling of Þórir þegjandi Rǫgnvaldsson 9th century Norse noble and second Jarl of Møre
- married to Gisela of France Legendary 10th-century French princess
- married to Poppa of Bayeux French mistress or wife of Viking conqueror Rollo
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Connections
How Rollo connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
19 statements on this record
- 14 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 4 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
- 1 Disputed The source records a disagreement, and the disagreement is kept rather than resolved.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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